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<body><h2>Senior Backend Engineer - San Francisco, CA 94107</h2>
<p><b>Company Overview</b></p>
<p>Are you passionate about helping people become healthier and happier? Do you think we spend too much money and time on medication and not enough on educating ourselves about our natural body? Are you interested in helping others understand our genetics, how we should eat, and how to take care of this incredible temple called the human body? If you answered yes to any of those questions, you should be a part of our family at Vitagene, because we want to help change the health and happiness of thousands of people, and hopefully so do you.</p>
<p>We are the fastest growing precision health platform in the US. What is precision health? It is the science of health and wellness personalized to your specific DNA, lifestyle, goals and lab results. Vitagene provides personalized testing and supplementation programs designed to educate and empower you to manage your own health and wellbeing. We feed off the belief that science, quality, convenience, and encouragement are the keys to reaching your personal health goals. We want our members to have a brighter, healthier, future and we want you to help us get them there.</p>
<p><b>Job Summary</b></p>
<p>We are looking for a high-performing Senior Back End Developer to build our API framework and our platform. Candidates for this role will be passionate about well written code, testing, and excel at coming up with simple approaches to complex problems.</p>
<p><b>Responsibilities and Duties</b></p>
<ul><li>100% Hands on role</li><li>Make architecture decisions that contribute to maintainable systems</li><li>Adapt to rapidly evolving requirements and changing priorities and drive the team accordingly</li><li>Implement algorithms based on genetic data to provide health recommendations</li></ul><p><b>Basic Qualifications</b></p>
<ul><li>2+ years of professional experience with Python</li><li>Strong skills &amp; experience in complex web application design</li><li>Professional experience with Django, AWS, &amp; Linux</li></ul><p><b>Preferred Qualifications</b></p>
<ul><li>Experience with Pandas and NumPy</li><li>Previous experience working at startup</li><li>Ability to move between high level design review and "roll up the sleeves" type of assistance across all phases of a development project</li></ul><p><b>Benefits and Perks</b></p>
<ul><li>Competitive Salary</li><li>San Francisco Office - SOMA</li><li>Medical Insurance &amp; Health Savings Account (HSA)</li><li>401(k)</li><li>Paid Sick Time Leave</li></ul><p>DhsCoFQ5vE</p></body>
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